Connie Schultz: Beware of Mike Pence

[babylonsister]

Beware of Mike Pence
By Connie Schultz
December 5, 2019 6 min read


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From Politico: "For Pence to be an effective surrogate in 2020, campaign officials say his reputation must be preserved. If the goal is to build a winning coalition that includes seniors, suburban women and swing-state residents suffering from Trump fatigue, someone has to be the nice guy."

Let's talk about this "nice guy."

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As I've offered before, a snapshot of that record:

As a radio show host, Pence defended presidential candidate Pat Buchanan as "four square in the mainstream." At the same time, William F. Buckley was denouncing Buchanan as an extremist who questioned the historical record of the Holocaust.

As governor of Indiana, Pence refused to pardon a black man whom everyone, including the parole board and the prosecutor, agreed had served nearly a decade in prison for a crime he did not commit. He also ignored a lead-contamination crisis of Flint-like proportions in the poor, mostly black city of East Chicago.

Pence also signed the so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act, so that business owners who don't like same-sex couples — that includes Pence, who said same-sex marriage could cause "societal collapse" — to legally deny them services. The backlash was so fast and fierce — and potentially damaging to Indiana's economy — that Pence signed a revised version of the law.

In 2016, right before he became the enabler-in-chief for candidate Trump, Pence signed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. As NPR reported at the time, the law banned "abortions due to fetal abnormalities and also requires aborted fetuses — and those from miscarriage — to be buried or cremated."

What a nice guy.

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[lark]

1. Dnger, danger, Will Robinson!

Pence is not drumpf, but is still very dangerous and maybe worse domestically. He's an ideology & racist & fears women badly so seriously wants to control us to force us to live our lives the way he & his religion wants us to - regardless of reality.

[irisblue]

2. Go Connie Schultz! Go Connie!

Worth the read time

[dawg day]

3. And he and his "pro-life" law put a woman in jail for years for a miscarriage

"Feticide"-- that's Mike Pence's term for both abortion and late miscarriage.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/indiana-has-now-charged-two-asian-american-women-feticide-n332761

[Mike 03]

4. For an extreme conservative like Pence to be denounced by William F. Buckley

is no small achievement.

We've got to do our part to smear some Ukrainegate on Pence.

[Stand and Fight]

17. You misread.

Buchanan was denounced by Buckley. Not Pence.

[marble falls]

5. He was and is the biggest danger we face from impeaching the Orange Shitgibbon ...

they need hauling off handcuffed together.

[questionseverything]

19. he is more dangerous because he actually believes the stuff he says

where trump is just trying to keep his misguided base

I fear he will seem normal after trump

he needs prosecuted too, I agree

[gibraltar72]

6. Pence is a Christstains Christstain.

[vlyons]

14. Just because Pence labels himself a Christian doesn't mean he practices the teachings of Jesus

That goes for lots of others, who wear a badge labeled "Christian."

[Stand and Fight]

18. Christian here. No, he is not. n/t

[Hortensis]

7. For those too young to know, Pat Buchanan is an intractable racist

who masqueraded as an apologist for benign, traditional white male leadership, completely without malice toward other races. You know, a soft-spoken, gentlemanly, intellectual...old-fashioned balancing viewpoint on the talk shows.

This was before the internet, when I was a lot younger and not paying attention to him, and my first clue to what he was saying to groups not reported by MSM was all the bigots who swarmed out of the woodwork to support him for president. Their candidate. Totally blasted his mask, never recovered, and eventually some remark of the sort he'd previously gotten away with was called out as racist, and after that only Fox would have him.

[thinkingagain]

8. So trump is the fire burning down your house

And pence is the carbon monoxide the poison you don’t see?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. good analogy

[dchill]

9. Pence is a Goddamned Dominionist.

I'll never NOT beware him, or Pompeo, either.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Pence's freedom of religion. His religion... not yours.

Pence's freedom of religion.

His religion... not yours.

[gademocrat7]

11. pentecostal pence needs to go down with trump.

[calimary]

12. He's a modern-day Neanderthal.

If he ever got to the Oval Office, even in place-holder position a la Gerald Ford, he’d do everything in his power to turn this country into a theocracy.

And that’s NOT, repeat, NOT what we are!

[AtheistCrusader]

13. He's trump's go-between for Evangelicals.

He spends all day every day shoring up a false narrative to evangelicals, keeping Trump's base strong. Promising bans on abortion, and other shit.

That's how a man on his third wife (Introduced to him by notorious and now suspiciously dead child rapist Jeffrey Epstein), whom he cheated on with a porn star while Melania was recovering from the birth of his son, and paid 130,000 to keep it under wraps, ends up worshipped as the second coming of jesus in churches across America.

[VOX]

15. That bobblehead-nodding, snub-nosed, pious asshole is a Freudian nightmare.

Another bleach-white Republican whose relationship with his wife is cast as “Mother,” who cannot be alone in a room with any woman (that’s pretty Taliban-y), and whose transparent attempts to gaze admiringly at his overlord are as painful to watch as they are sickening to see.

Trump is emotionally disturbed and grossly incompetent, and should never been allowed to even run for president. But Pence...Pence is the guy who praises Gawd and signs death warrants. He is the real danger.